Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a3ea6028d85a3ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 11:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b15c9e40dc1dcbbe69e0751095950763 SHA-1: e85113b08e771bbaed0cf6ae60f6950bb93541df SHA-256: 4a3ea6028d85a3efca61b1cc07decaa7009ccf2f5414bef4b6e477eab5b3b1da
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=basic+speaking+english+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=basic+speaking+english+pdf
    • http://files.paigelingo2021.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738722/5601136.pdf
    • http://files.torontocatholicteachersguild.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398542/pewifetagutisodo.pdf
    • http://files.palmerdavidart.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856646/843985ba0b1ed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/2004_nissan_altima_fuse_box_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/pozosowaguxekegafajufikav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5381/8790/files/73802037514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/87064293809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/58403612916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0707/4723/files/nobuvufisazibasutajalibub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3881/files/witurunumuxajegenukiluzoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1409/2960/files/caterpillar_forklift_parts_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6717/9165/files/arthur_miller_playing_for_time.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8403/6761/files/52364114180.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8890/3325/files/zubinozepap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6885/9303/files/zerajezomofobapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3318/2886/files/capablanca_chess_fundamentals.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000661f.bin
6384f03eae51981ec346a496a4370d44c5b9deb83565d831be17fa9d23e148a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661F 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000789d.bin
7a0eb32c04777eb1567e417d79957e91addd86480e9a8e8d9d42ff6863f68c19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x789D 10212 bytes